Pakistan Emergency

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's decision to proclaim an emergency thereby suspending the country's constitution might, on the outset, seem like a route chosen by an archetypal dictator of a country accustomed to the iron-fisted grip of its military establishment on the country's political and judicial landscape.There are some compelling reasons though for the issuance of emergency in Pakistan.The hydra-headed monster of Al-Qaeda-inspired Islamist terrorism that has ravaged Pakistan over the past year is beginning to assume catastrophic proportions.Internal instability due to tardily indecisive judicial activism and the unabated proliferation of extremist ideologies through the demagoguery of puritanically revivalistic mullahs, zealously desirous of usurping the writ of the Pakistani Government, manifested amply during the Laal Masjid crisis, has created a dysfunctional country.Pakistan's primary function in the war on terror needs strong executive powers albeit with the tolerable snatching away of civil liberties.India needs to be heedful and adopt a diplomatically noninterventionist approach.